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yes. pm tools. i’ve tried netoffice and dotproject during my uni days. all these online tools are only useful if people are hardworking enough — yes, i just said hardworking enough — to log in and UPDATE the tasks. i’ve found out that the best tools for this is still Gmail+pen+paper. no hassle at all.

nevertheless here’s a list for online pm tools if you guys are interested. can use it for any sorts of project based work. it’s not sorted in preferences btw. just search them in my google reader subscriptions list. i am actually looking for a different thing. something to track inventories. not too complex. just a simple one. yeah excel maybe the answer.

yup, dotProject is the most leading project management application (PMA). as project management software, dotproject also have really intuitive user interface, including to do list, project list, and project report.
you can also read my letter about dotProject in Indonesia by visit my open source blog

in order to get a job, you need a visa
in order to get a visa, you need work experience i.e. job

to get the first job, most of them say we need experience people only
to get the experience yes of course we need a job

my friend’s dad told me once about the importance of being one-mindedness. whenever you decide something, please stick to it and don’t easily give up. i thought about it, and added that this can be applied if that something is a right thing to do and the judgement that you made for it is base on the correct source (quran and sunnah).

it’s not about whether the chicken or the egg that comes out first. it’s about what you do to get either one of them as a start. get the chicken and you will have the egg. get the egg, and there you have the chicken. if you think too much, without doing anything, you won’t go anywhere. and then people start asking me how can you get either one of them?

Here’s the answer: pray, think, pray, plan, pray, execute, and pray

notice that i didn’t include any complaints, relax, being lazy and et cetera as part of the answer.

most of the time, things seems so difficult, and you can hardly see the solution. but subhanallah, Allah is always there with His blessings. just keep praying bro. Allah is just a prayer away.

In engineering, you always need assumption. Same thing goes with science. But in real life, when you are dealing with people (and emotions), it is a very dangerous thing to play with, especially with the “help” of the ‘aduwwu mubeen. Yes, the syaitan laknatullah. We do this and that, and we see people do this and that, and there goes the conclusion. This is beautifully crafted by our brain, based on past history. What should we do with it then? Just let the mind deduction passed by unattended?

The art of persuasion is something that we all should need to master. most people (no citation here just based on observation) usually end up being on the extreme side. either they are too dictating, or end up being too happy-go-lucky if you know what i mean.

you want to ask this guy, hey let’s go with me there’s a very exciting event tomorrow. how do you really ask him/her? one answer to most of the question i have ever encountered in this world is this: It Depends.

yeah it really depends. i know there are some people out there that just doesn’t like to be “watch” and “stalked” all the time (well who does?) sorry. let me rephrase. i know there are some people out there that just doesn’t like to be bossed around, and just hate people busy-bodying around him. Note: the term “bossed-around” and “busy-bodying around” are just a matter of perspective and perception. (i will elaborate this in the footnote).

to handle this type of people, you need to apply to them a skilled and not-so-frequent touch of magic (not sihir, just a figure of speech). it’s like you pass him by,and walla, there it goes, the message is delivered. do not be too direct. not too scheme (i’m trying to say “jangan jadi skema sangat”). usually this habit or characteristic are found inside a teenager. about the age of 15-17. but yeah although he’s 21 it’s somehow still there. it can hardly work if you go with the usual way of “hey would you like to go here and here”, you will keep getting a “i’ll think about that” or “tengok la nanti”. it’s just not cool to follow your order. get what i’m trying to say?

but when we encounter too much of this people, and suddenly when we meet the other extreme, we will find it very hard to tune up our mind. these people really want you to ask about him/her. but not to stalk them. just show that you care. anyhow this is still just my personal opinion. it may be right it may be wrong (just another version of “it-depends”). and for the second type of people. please do reduce the “its-up-to-you-lah” attitude when delivering him a message. do not be afraid from being caught as a “busy-body”, because they kind of like it i guess.

Footnote: it’s not busy body or even bossy when you are awake, and people are still sleeping in a house burning with flame and fire, when you put an effort to wake them up. as i said earlier, it’s just a matter of perception. things that you do may be seen differently. So just try to reduce this perception, so that his decision about waking up from sleep wouldnt be affected, or at least minimised. i’m not saying that you should wake them up in a harsh way. i’m saying that the problem that concerned me more is people are minimising their effort to wake people up because of their own perception about other people’s perception.

this enry, like other entries, are dedicated especially for me and if applicable, to you dear readers as well.

sometimes, if not always, we strive to get something we want, but it seems to be so near, and yet so far. that’s what i felt in my job hunting, and some other things happening around me. when this happens to one of you guys out there, it’s really up to us to look at it in what perspective. how do you see yourself really determine how people see you. for best results, i suggest you look at it this way…

you work very hard to get it. and after all those effort, you earn the fruits. or, you might work really slow and lazy, and easily get it. i can guarantee, the latter fruits produced will be easily slipped out of your hand in no time.

why? because we hardly appreciate something that we easily obtained. this is the nature (fitrah) of human. you all knew this already so i don’t really need to elaborate more on this.

so my dear brothers and sisters, i’m telling you this. everytime you feel something is almost in your grasp, and you are about to grab it, but eventually failed, please don’t give up. just KEEP trying, and KEEP praying. because Allah, He never fails His Promise. If He didn’t give you what you really want, He truly has something far more better for His ibaad (slaves). hehe. seriously.